Woman Charged In March Slaying Of Husband

In March, the Wilton Manors woman said her husband was murdered outside his house by an unknown robber.

In April, according to Broward Sheriff`s Office investigators, she said he was killed by one of his friends at the friend`s home.

But on Monday, the Sheriff`s Office arrested Patricia James, 36, of the 800 block of Northwest 29th Street, and charged her with first-degree murder in the death of Bernard James, 37.

Timothy Ott, 32, of Fort Lauderdale, at whose home the murder allegedly took place, was charged with first-degree murder in April.

After the March 24 killing, Patricia James described a man who had attacked her husband during a robbery.

When investigators confronted her with inconsistencies in her story, James said her husband was strangled by Ott at Ott`s home after an argument, according to investigators. She admitted driving his body home and trying to fake the robbery, investigators said.

She was charged at the time with being an accessory after the fact to first- degree murder.

Investigators said in a statement on Tuesday that they have determined now that James ``took an active part in the murder and had full knowledge that it was going to occur.``

She was held without bail in the Broward County Jail. Ott remains in jail without bail.